Detailed instructions for installing the Confluent Platform are provided in our installation guide.
Below are some short instructions on how to install just the Confluent Control Center server on common platforms.

Confluent Control Center is included in the full Confluent Platform Enterprise package. Installation instructions
for installing the overall platform on RedHat style systesm can be found at RPM packages via yum.

If you would like to install just Control Center on a server, first follow the instructions for configuring
Confluent repositories with you package manager. Then, you can install control center with a line like:

Confluent Control Center is included in the full Confluent Platform Enterprise package. Installation instructions
for the overall platform on Debian style systesm can be found at DEB packages via apt.

If you would like to install just Control Center on a server, first follow the instructions for configuring
Confluent repositories with you package manager. Then, you can install control center with a line like:

Confluent Control Center is included in the full Confluent Platform Enterprise package. Installation instructions
for installing the overall platform from archives can be found at ZIP and TAR archives.

We have provided a convenient script for starting control center, called controlcenter-start.
This script takes one argument: a configuration file specifying properties for Control Center. For example,
you can use a command like this to start control center with the default properties:

Confluent Control Center is proprietary software. If you downloaded and installed this from the Confluent Web Site and
are not a Confluent Enterprise subscription customer, you have already agreed to our license agreement. If you are a
Confluent Enterpise subscription customer, then you are bound by the terms of the agreement between your company and Confluent.

If you are not a customer, your download includes a 30 day free trial for Control Center. Control Center will stop
functioning 30 days after you install the software. Any Kafka
Connect Connectors that you created will still function; you can use the Kafka Connect API to change them, but
you cannot use Control Cener to make changes to connectors. Data Stream Monitoring will continue to log data, but the
web application will not continue to function. If you would like to learn more about how to become a Confluent Platform
Enterprise subscription customer, please visit our web site.

If you are a customer, we will issue you a license key and all of the functions of Control Center will be unlocked for
the term of your subscription. If the Data Stream Monitoring functionality has become disabled, please contact us
through our support portal for assistance.